Campsie Town Centre will evolve from a main street local centre into a vibrant health and lifestyle precinct that services the Canterbury-Bankstown community.
The Campsie Town Centre Master Plan sets a vision to guide and manage this growth, renewal and change in Campsie.
The Master Plan seeks to leverage the unique attributes and anchors of Campsie, such as its proximity to central Sydney, its location on the Cooks River, the presence of Canterbury Hospital and a thriving main street, to facilitate 7,500 jobs and an additional 5,600 dwellings in the centre and 760 dwellings along Canterbury Road by 2036.
The draft Plan provides a framework to inform the delivery of infrastructure, improvements to the design and sustainability of buildings, public domain improvements, the delivery of affordable housing, increased capacity for jobs, housing and community facilities and an approach to the management of heritage and character.
We are required to undertake the following work to implement the Master Plan and enable the delivery of development under the new planning framework:
- Amendments to the existing Local Environmental Plan (under a Planning Proposal) - to implement the planning provisions into the statutory planning framework such as height of building limits, floor space ratios, land use zoning.
- Updates to the existing Development Control Plan - to provide development and design guidelines that support the Local Environmental Plan. This includes areas such as building setbacks, architectural materials, landscaping and deep soil requirements, parking, solar access and overshadowing and privacy.
- Align with Council's Development Contributions Plan - to ensure local community infrastructure will be delivered through supporting financial or in-kind contributions. Local infrastructure includes works to improve new open space (such as new playgrounds, vegetation and furniture), new multi-purpose facilities, footpath upgrades, streetscape landscaping and cycling infrastructure (such as bicycle lanes).
The next stage is to prepare and lodge a Planning Proposal. A Planning Proposal is a document that explains the intended effect of a proposed Local Environmental Plan (LEP) or LEP amendment and sets out the justification for making that plan. Planning Proposals are usually prepared by local councils and reviewed and approved by State Government.
The next steps are illustrated below:
- Status: DonePlanning Proposal submitted for Gateway Determination
The Planning Proposal together with the master plan are to be reported to Council for submission to the NSW Department of Planning and Environment for a Gateway Determination*, seeking approval for public exhibition.
*Before a planning proposal goes on formal exhibition, it must go through the ‘Gateway Process’. The ‘Gateway Process’ refers to assessment of the Planning Proposal by the NSW Department of Planning and Environment.
A ‘Gateway Determination’ is issued when the NSW Department of Planning and Environment decide that a planning proposal can process to the next stage of the plan making process.
- Status: Done⭐ Gateway Determination Pending
The Planning Proposal is submitted to the NSW Department of Planning and Environment for Gateway Determination including approval to proceed to formal exhibition.
- Status: DoneFormal exhibition
The Planning Proposal will be on formal exhibition for public comment. The Master Plan will be exhibited as a supporting document.
- Status: DoneReview of submissions and consideration by Council
Following exhibition, all submissions will be reviewed, and the Planning Proposal will be considered by Council to determine whether it will proceed for finalisation.
- Status: DoneFinalisation
The final outcomes of the consultation will be documented here, and the Planning Proposal will be sent back to the NSW Department of Planning and Environment for finalisation and implementation.
No, whilst the Master Plan is an adopted policy of Council, it does not have any weight in assessing a development application. The current planning controls continue to apply until such a time that the Planning Proposal to implement the Master Plans is finalised.
We discourage lodgement of site-specific Planning Proposals in the Campsie Town Centre that seek to implement the Planning Proposal, as we are pursuing a centre-wide Planning Proposal for its implementation.
The Master Plan provides a framework for growth and change over the next 15 years and beyond. It is likely that development will occur in a staged manner in the short, medium and long term.